Colossus by Sam R

COLOSSUS THE FLYING SHARK

Colossus is the king of all Great white sharks in the world because he is bigger, stronger and fiercer than all of the other great white sharks in the world.

There is about 50 great white sharks feeding on cape fur seals off Seal Island but none of the sharks are as big as Colossus; he is about 15 feet long (4.572m) and weighs about 3000 pounds (1360.78kg). He lives at Seal Island off False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa with many other sharks smaller than him. He breaches out of the water to catch his prey in the ‘ring of death’ which is usually cape fur seals.

Colossus was first discovered around Seal Island in 2011 and since then he has become the king of the Seal Island waters. Jeff Kurr and Chris Fallows are researching Colossus, he has even destroyed their underwater cameras while filming him. For about two years Colossus went missing from Seal Island so Jeff Kurr and Chris Fallows went searching all over the world for him. They went to Australia and Stewart Island, New Zealand to search but they didn’t find him. In New Zealand, Chris Fallows went down 40 feet in W.A.S.P (Water Armor Shark Protection) to see if Colossus was there but they said there were 18 foot sharks bigger than Colossus that were banging against W.A.S.P. After two long years away from Seal Island Colossus returned in 2014 to the scientists relief and was back hunting for seals around Seal Island.

Colossus usually hunts in the ring of death. The ring of death is a ring around the island that expands 400 yards (365.76m) around. Colossus would be waiting further out from the shore because he is a bigger shark, the seals usually hop into the water at Sector Four of the island which is the bottom tip of the island. When Colossus breaches out of the water he hits the seal with 29 G’S at about 25 miles per hour which is like getting hit by a freight train, so thats why hardly no seals survive the attacks but occasionally some seals survive because they have a thick layer of blubber protecting them from the cold and shark attacks.

The filmmaker Jeff Kurr has tried many things to get the perfect picture of Colossus, he has tried a robo seal with many cameras connected to it but that got destroyed by Colossus in one bite. They have also tried some seal dummies which got destroyed too. And once Jeff Kurr built a seal sled made out of metal and he laid on it at the surface of the water to capture a seal attack right in front of him.

Colossus is one of the biggest Great White Sharks in the world and is continuing to dominate Seal Island, Cape Town, South Africa. The last time Jeff Kurr and Chris Fallows saw Colossus was May 2015 around Seal Island.

Written by Sam Rochford